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Cyril Towers (30)
Hey actually says get your hands off his face
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Bledisloe 2 - Wallabies vs All Blacks, Wellington, 27 August 2016
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KOB1987
John Eales (66)
yeah but you're a Kiwi.
this is where NZ will show why they're a step ahead of everyone else though. even if he doesn't get pinned for it, because it's so obvious I bet he doesn't get picked for the next game. They won't say why, he just won't get picked.
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Stan Wickham (3)
Haha. You're more one-eyed than Kane Douglas now is.
Poite did see it - he told Franks "not the head" then watched as he proceeded to go hard at it. Completely inept display. Plus, the AR couldn't have been more than 10-15 feet away. Just hopeless.
Yeah, nah. The law precludes contact with the face especially around the eyes. It's not ambiguous.
FrankLind
Colin Windon (37)
So contact with the face is the same penalty as eye-gouging?? Honestly don't know.
EDIT
Watched a replay of the clip ever so closely, and yes he does appear to have tried to gouge his eyes.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11701127
And this reverse angle confirmed it.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJm21U4hRzb/
EDIT
Watched a replay of the clip ever so closely, and yes he does appear to have tried to gouge his eyes.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11701127
And this reverse angle confirmed it.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJm21U4hRzb/
No, contact with the face around the eyes is not on. It's supposed to be a yellow card offence or worse. Definite eye-gouging might be worse. I think the idea is to discourage fingers near eyes, because, you know, blindness. What Franks did, whether intentional or in a fugue-state, should have been sanctioned. Even more so since the ref told him to stop before he did it!!!!
CatchnPass
Vay Wilson (31)
Genia did a good job, but he's only MOTM if we are limited to Wobs. Otherwise Barrett, Smith, Coles (OK, maybe not after the gouge), Retallick et al are well in front.
FrankLind
Colin Windon (37)
So what you're saying is a one match suspension served as an emergency call-up for the "injured" prop in his Canterbury club side.
Viking
Mark Ella (57)
He very clearly attacked the face though... still pretty bad in my books should never attack the face like that.
HoldingOn
Alfred Walker (16)
Nobody knows what is in Poite's books
Viking
Mark Ella (57)
i was referring to wallabies only. NZ probably have 15 plus players ahead for MOTM before a wallaby is picked.
Do you really want to know what I'm saying? Because it aint fucking that.
mark_s
Chilla Wilson (44)
If someone has a recording, I'd like to know what happened to pocock later in the first half. He was running to a ruck, then ended up on the ground looking a bit dazed. He rejoined play a few rucks later.
As for the game, same shit different day. Line out, ruck, tackling, kicking all sub par. Scrum, not good. Attack, mostly non existent.
I gotta say that A Smith is a freak. He has some friends in the ABs but he has taken half back play to a new level.
As for the game, same shit different day. Line out, ruck, tackling, kicking all sub par. Scrum, not good. Attack, mostly non existent.
I gotta say that A Smith is a freak. He has some friends in the ABs but he has taken half back play to a new level.
Pictures.
Strewthcobber
Simon Poidevin (60)
The foul play regulations call up
Obviously the worst the incident the worse the penalty will be but the low end penalty is a 12 week suspension
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